Zechariah 13:7

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Zechariah 13:7

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Summary

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

O sword

My shepherd

Smite

The sheep

Matthew 26:31

Mark 14:27

John 16:32

I will turn

General references

Matthew 26:54

Luke 9:22

Luke 24:26

Bible References

O sword

If I sharpen My glittering sword, and if My hand takes hold in judgment, I will give vengeance to My enemies and will reward those that hate Me.

In that day Jehovah with His great and fierce and strong sword shall punish the sea-monster, the darting serpent, the sea-monster, that twisting serpent; and He shall kill the monster in the sea.

O sword of Jehovah, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself into your sheath; rest and be still.

Since then I will cut off the righteous and the wicked from you, therefore My sword shall be drawn from its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north,

My shepherd

For so says Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter,

He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those with young.

And I will set up one Shepherd over them, and He shall feed them, My servant David. He shall feed them, and He shall be their Shepherd.

And David My servant shall be King over them. And there shall be one Shepherd to all of them. And they shall walk in My judgments, and obey My Laws, and do them.

And you, Bethlehem Ephratah, you being least among the thousands of Judah, out of you He shall come forth to Me, to become Ruler in Israel, He whose goings forth have been from of old, from the days of eternity.

The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Now may the God of peace (who brought again our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant)

And when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a never-fading crown of glory.

Smite

Surely He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people and as to your holy city, to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.

The next day John sees Jesus coming to him and says, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

But even as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

this One given to you by the before-determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken and by lawless hands, crucifying Him, you put Him to death;

The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ."

being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

who was delivered because of our offenses and was raised for our justification.

For we yet being without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

Truly He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

For He has made Him who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone having been hanged on a tree");

For it pleased the Father that in Him all fullness should dwell.

Therefore when He comes into the world, He says, "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You have prepared a body for Me.

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers,

He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;

And He is the propitiation concerning our sins, and not concerning ours only, but also concerning the sins of all the world.

In this the love of God was revealed in us, because God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him.

And all dwelling on the earth will worship it, those whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain, from the foundation of the world.

The sheep

Then Jesus said to them, All of you will be offended because of Me this night. For it is written, "I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad."

And Jesus said to them, All of you will be offended because of Me this night. For it is written, "I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered."

Behold, the hour comes, yea, has now come, that you will be scattered, each man to his own things, and you will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

I will turn

And I fed the flock of slaughter, even the poor of the flock. And I took two staffs for myself; the one I called Kindness, and the other I called Union. And I fed the flock.

And whoever shall give to one of these little ones a cup of cold water to drink, only in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, He shall in no way lose his reward.

Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I say to you that in Heaven their angels always behold the face of My Father in Heaven.

Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck and he were cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

Jesus answered, I have told you that I AM. Therefore if you seek Me, let these go away;

General references

But how then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?

saying, The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?